Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, November 17th, 2023 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page There are clients who, never having fully confronted – and grieved – the pain of their early-on heartbreak, cling tenaciously to their hope that perhaps someday the object of their desire will be forthcoming. But there are others who, in the…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, July 21, 2023 Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page "Pretending that it can be when it can't is how people break their hearts." -Elvin Semrad Relentless hope is a defense to which clients cling in order not to have to feel the pain of their disappointment in the object – the…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Dr. Martha Stark will present a comprehensive approach to deep and sustained (second-order) change that integrates three psychodynamic paradigms –(Model 1) the interpretive perspective of classical psychoanalysis (a 1-person psychology with a focus on "interpreting resistance," "developing insight," and "resolving internal conflict");…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, March 1st, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page If deep and enduring psychodynamic change is the ultimate goal of treatment, then periodically juxtaposing seemingly contradictory "forces" (Hegel's thesis and antithesis) will eventually jump-start the patient's "adaptive recovery" by creating optimally stressful, growth-incentivizing "mismatch experiences." Dr. Stark will be proposing use…
Martha Stark, MD Bundle includes Homestudy access to: A Heart Shattered, The Impenetrable Self, and A Life Unlived: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Relentless Despair (1.0 CE/CEUs | $20.00) Wise Mind / Wise Body: The Neuroplastic Synergy of Mindfulness and Intentionality (2.0 CE/CEUs | $30.00) Understanding Life Backward but Living It Forward: Analyzing to Understand but Envisioning Possibilities to Incentivize Action (1.0 CE/CEUs…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, September 27th, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Although you pride yourself on being able to offer your clients plenty of support, do you sometimes worry that you might not be providing them quite enough challenge? My workshop will teach you to construct a series of growth-incentivizing interventions specifically…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Just as a field of grass can be set on fire to stimulate it to grow back greener, healthier, and lusher than before, so can controlled damage (whether to body or to mind) can provoke the healing cascade. In the physiological realm,…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, November 17th, 2023 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page Martha Stark, MD, will be presenting an action-based, solution-focused, future-oriented psychodynamic model that conceives of the mind as holding infinite potential and of memory as dynamic and continuously updating itself on the basis of new experience (whether real or simply envisioned).…
Presented by Martha Stark, MD Recorded on Friday, December 1st, 2023 Access provided upon registration on "My Courses” page "You have two lives – the one you're born into and the one you choose." 7-year-old Sean Reagan on the TV series "Blue Bloods" (2011) During our time together, I will be inviting you to engage both your analytical/logical (more cognitive)…
